Charity leaders and former aides have expressed their “dismay” at the close working relationship that has developed between No 10 and Brendan Cox, the widowed husband of the murdered MP Jo Cox who has in the past resigned from three charities after claims of sexual misconduct.
Cox, who advised Gordon Brown in Downing Street, is close to many senior Labour figures and is being “informally consulted” on the government’s social cohesion strategy, according to sources familiar with the relationship (a characterisation recognised neither by Cox nor No 10).
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